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Cyrus Whitfield Bond (June 1, 1915 – June 12, 1978), known professionally as Johnny Bond, was a popular American country music entertainer of the 1940s through the 1960s.

Bond was born in Enville, Oklahoma. He got his first break working for Jimmy Wakely in the late 1930s and went on to join Gene Autry's Melody Ranch in 1940. He also acted on occasion in films including Wilson and Duel in the Sun; and was later a regular on the 1950s Los Angeles country music television series Town Hall Party.

He is best known for his 1947 hit "Divorce Me C.O.D.", one of his seven top ten hits on the Billboard country charts. In 1965 at age 50 he scored the biggest hit of his career with the comic "Ten Little Bottles", which spent four weeks at number two. Bond's other hits include "So Round, So Firm, So Fully Packed" (1947), "Oklahoma Waltz" (1948), "Love Song in 32 Bars" (1950), "Sick Sober and Sorry" (1951) and "Hot Rod Lincoln" (1960).

He died of a heart attack in 1978, at the age of 63.

Fallout: New Vegas

Johnny Bond wrote and performed the song "Stars of the Midnight Range" with his band, the Red River Valley Boys, which is broadcast on Black Mountain Radio and Mojave Music Radio in Fallout: New Vegas.

Fallout 76

Johnny Bond performed the song "Headin' Down the Wrong Highway," which is broadcast on Appalachia Radio in Fallout 76.

Credits

Fallout series

YearTitleCredited as/for
2010Fallout: New Vegas"Stars of the Midnight Range"
2018Fallout 76"Headin' Down the Wrong Highway"
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